Forza Horizon 5 Catch-All

So . . . drivatars. If my drivatar drives anything like I do, I would like to formally apologize for all the times I have intentionally gone too fast into a turn intentionally and thrown myself into a skid so I could bounce off you in the right direction and move up in the race a bit. Totally uncalled for.

I do think having drivatars named after people on your friends list is one of the singly most-brilliant things they did with this game. What's happening for me is people who I haven't talked to for years are now people I am screaming at because they won't get the hell out of my way.

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

So . . . drivatars. If my drivatar drives anything like I do, I would like to formally apologize for all the times I have intentionally gone too fast into a turn intentionally and thrown myself into a skid so I could bounce off you in the right direction and move up in the race a bit. Totally uncalled for.

I apologize for nothing.

Hockosi wrote:

I apologize for nothing.

You should. Your drivatar beat me in the Colossus. :@

MilkmanDanimal wrote:

So . . . drivatars. If my drivatar drives anything like I do, I would like to formally apologize for all the times I have intentionally gone too fast into a turn intentionally and thrown myself into a skid so I could bounce off you in the right direction and move up in the race a bit. Totally uncalled for.

Yeah, I drive like a crazy person and am not adverse to using another car to redirect me in the right direction.

Pink Stripes wrote:
Hockosi wrote:

I apologize for nothing.

You should. Your drivatar beat me in the Colossus. :@

Oh good lord. I am sorry. I won that race with them riding my tail to the end.

robc wrote:
MilkmanDanimal wrote:

So . . . drivatars. If my drivatar drives anything like I do, I would like to formally apologize for all the times I have intentionally gone too fast into a turn intentionally and thrown myself into a skid so I could bounce off you in the right direction and move up in the race a bit. Totally uncalled for.

Yeah, I drive like a crazy person and am not adverse to using another car to redirect me in the right direction.

Yeah, this.

You all should know better than to get in my way.

trueheart78 wrote:

I just learned that we can use Spotify playlists, so everyone that is missing Girlfriend can fix that mistake.

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I did not know that you can change the amount of preference you have for music vs game audio in the Now Playing portion of the hud, so I can make the Spotify music sound more like in-game by lowering it’s number. Loving it.

I finally set up my Logitech G29 racing wheel and...I went back to my controller. I like how I can make more subtle adjustments with the wheel, but the car seems harder to control and likes to sway a bit when the wheel comes back to center. Using the brakes with the wheel setup definitely feels much better. It is easier to have finer control and I don't lock up the brakes as much. But overall, I couldn't compete with my controller times...sadface.

I sup’d up a Whilly Jeep for the heck of it. It does not handle that much power at all, yet it’s so fun to drive around.

trueheart78 wrote:
trueheart78 wrote:

I just learned that we can use Spotify playlists, so everyone that is missing Girlfriend can fix that mistake.

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I did not know that you can change the amount of preference you have for music vs game audio in the Now Playing portion of the hud, so I can make the Spotify music sound more like in-game by lowering it’s number. Loving it.

This has to be available to us PC people, right? I'll go look tonight.

Do we have any successful drifters here?

I’m getting sick of failing this seasonal event with the drift cars that only have one speed.

trueheart78 wrote:

I'm gonna keep the difficulty setting on Novice.

I'm with you. Baby mode all the way.

Blind_Evil wrote:

Do we have any successful drifters here?

I’m getting sick of failing this seasonal event with the drift cars that only have one speed.

I was playing tonight, and I think I realized one major part that I'd overlooked. I'm pretty sure, if you wanna drift, you have to have Traction Control, at a minimum, turned off. Possibly ABS too, but I'm like 95% sure TCS has gotta be off.

Yeah, I'm not sure ABS makes much of a difference, but definitely turn Traction Control and Stability Control off if you want to drift. It would be nice if there was a control bind for those settings so you wouldn't have to go into the menus.

I generally keep those off, though I did turn traction and stability on for the soaking muscle car season races lol

I did manage to get the season drift zone goal, but it was not fun.

Traction, ABS and stability are normally off for me. I also turn the transmission to manual when I go out to drift.

Redhwk wrote:

Traction, ABS and stability are normally off for me. I also turn the transmission to manual when I go out to drift.

I'm playing on a gamepad, so I eased myself into Traction/Stability/ABS all being off. No more just hammering on the brakes, and as I suspected, while I'm not GOOD at drifting, it's 500% easier now.

Another thing I noticed today, while tearing around in my Lancer? The sound design in this game is absolutely astonishing. Like, A++++++ Everyone Else Take Notes perfection.

Apologies in advance; sorry I was trolling on the pronunciation. It was mansplained to me when I talked about 4, and I thought committing to the bit was funny for 5. In retrospect, not so much.

Is it just me, or are there hardly any other cars on the roads in-game? Feel like FH4 had much more traffic.

Jonman wrote:

Is it just me, or are there hardly any other cars on the roads in-game? Feel like FH4 had much more traffic.

It was like that for me, at first. Now I’m dodging fools all the time… That is, when I’m actually on the road.

trueheart78 wrote:
Jonman wrote:

Is it just me, or are there hardly any other cars on the roads in-game? Feel like FH4 had much more traffic.

It was like that for me, at first. Now I’m dodging fools all the time… That is, when I’m actually on the road.

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Blind_Evil wrote:

Do we have any successful drifters here?

I’m getting sick of failing this seasonal event with the drift cars that only have one speed.

Don't forget to use your Car Mastery point things. Some cars have skills you can put points into to give you extra points for drift skills, making the events a bit easier.

Amoebic wrote:

Apologies in advance; sorry I was trolling on the pronunciation. It was mansplained to me when I talked about 4, and I thought committing to the bit was funny for 5. In retrospect, not so much.

I laughed, if it's any consolation!

halfwaywrong wrote:
Blind_Evil wrote:

Do we have any successful drifters here?

I’m getting sick of failing this seasonal event with the drift cars that only have one speed.

Don't forget to use your Car Mastery point things. Some cars have skills you can put points into to give you extra points for drift skills, making the events a bit easier.

Amoebic wrote:

Apologies in advance; sorry I was trolling on the pronunciation. It was mansplained to me when I talked about 4, and I thought committing to the bit was funny for 5. In retrospect, not so much.

I laughed, if it's any consolation!

Bless your kind heart

There is patch for the game available on PC. Hopefully it fixes some or most of the stability issues. We'll see.

EDIT: Here are the changes.

I've personally barely noticed much, although, in watching funny clips on YT, I am dismayed at how little gamers seem to understand the difference between "broken" and "that's just a minor glitch/this game's physics are willfully unrealistic because this isn't a realistic game."

Thanks to whoever just added me to the club (with a different username). Cheers.

Pink Stripes wrote:

There is patch for the game available on PC. Hopefully it fixes some or most of the stability issues. We'll see.

EDIT: Here are the changes.

So apparently pausing the update and closing the game (to patch while I sleep since I have crappy internet speed) uninstalls the game. It took me 2 days to download initially so I guess I’m out. Oh well I enjoyed it for a few days at least.

That Xbox app does some wild things. I had to reinstall earlier, too. I thought it was a good opportunity to move the game to my fastest drive, but I had to _format_ it before the Xbox app would acknowledge it existed (the drive was otherwise fine, of course).

FH5 is so nice once it decides to run, though. Good luck if you decide to wait it out again.

Jonman, it took me almost an hour to beat your time on the Horizon Mexico Circuit with the S2 class car. There are two big turns that you would always do better than me, along with the final turn. I kept trying and trying, sometimes I'd take one turn better than you but then I couldn't match you on another, until I finally beat it. This is the best part of FH5 to me. Racing the AI is OK, but trying to beat another person's ghost just feels much more real to me and not so artificial. partially because I drive like a crazy person vs the AI, but I need to drive clean in Rivals mode.

robc wrote:

trying to beat another person's ghost just feels much more real to me and not so artificial. partially because I drive like a crazy person vs the AI, but I need to drive clean in Rivals mode.

If you could stop beating my C600 time at Horizon Mexico Circuit that'd be great, thanks.

I have stuff to do and I keep getting pinged that "robc beat your time."